| New Daniel Penny
Trial Book After Evidence Closes
Checks System Failure &
Culture War
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CENTRE STREET,
Nov 22 – The day after the
Daniel Penny trial evidence
closed on November 22, a new
book was published about the
case, "Daniel Penny for Your
Thoughts," e-book and
audiobook on Amazon here.
Inner City Press reporter
Matthew Russell Lee live
streamed the NYPD's perp walk
on Elizabeth Street in May
2023, through the trial i
November. He obtained and
included the autopsy, court
records - and some reflections
of his character Kurt
Wheelock, previously reviewed
in New York magazine.
The book
begins: "Onto a subway car
like this one he got on, a
muffin in his jacket pocket
wrapped in plastic, a spleen
speckled, it would turn out,
by sickle cell disease. But
that is not what killed him,
Assistant District Attorney
Dafna Yoran would
say. Was it
an improper blood choke, or
the terror he inspired, in a
lady from Park Slope with her
baby, a Nike brand ambassador
on the way to Rucker Park?
Even the Bronx school girls
said they were frightened,
even if one did later drop the
dime on the white man. That
was prosecutor Jillian
Shartrand's doing, to call the
victim by his name and the
defendant merely the white
man. Of the
decedent there was more, not
only the mother stuffed in a
suitcase but the channeling of
Michael Jackson,
dreams. Now
to see a man lifeless on the
subway's floor."
Audiobook and
paperback coming.
More on X for
Subscribers here
and Substack here
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